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by shoo 6y ago
You could.
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by shoo 6y ago
another angle is the business perspective. a lot of software is deployed in the service of the goals of business. To serve that purpose it often isn't necessary for the software to be completely correct. If it is probably sort of corre
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Rule of thumb when speaking or writing: replace "should" with "could". Simple way to avoid implying obligation.
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Which of Fussell's classes do you reckon are most often found commenting on HN threads? What gives them away? Roll 1d6. Phrase your response in the manner of the class indicated by the result of the dice roll, as follows: 1: upper ; 2
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by shoo 6y ago
maybe my intuition isn't calibrated right, but $10 for a computer including shipping sounds cheap to me how much does it cost to actually provide that shipping? what would a fair price for it be?
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> neither of them would pay in BTC. One of the interviewers even laughed when I asked this is an entertaining anecdote, thank you for sharing. wonder if there's a bit of a "there's a gold rush going on, so sell picks and s
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by shoo 6y ago
previous industry: particular production db had a few terabytes of data but didn't have customer data. We could just get a dump of prod db, not super sensitive, no drama. After we migrated it to aws rds we could just spin up new dbs f
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Trying to value the potential non existence of the environment using money as a measurement seems to rapidly become incoherent: assume there's no environment. ok, so human life can no longer be supported on earth. So there's no on
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There's a few associated problems to solve. not impossible, just work to be done. Here's some off the top of my head: When you go to that site and enter your master key to decrypt all the passwords, how do you guarantee that the s
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If you limit exchanges to only those with reciprocal supply & demand then it becomes much less less likely to identify deals where people can use the service to provide value for each other. Assuming there are n different kinds of exper
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These terms were from NAB, for reference see https://www.nab.com.au/business/loans-and-finance/business-l...
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Throughout my personal life I use Portfolio SAFe to align strategy with execution and organize my solution development around the flow of value through one or more value streams.
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In Australia our major commercial banks offer unsecured loans to businesses based upon the business' cash flow. Example eligibility requirements: turnover of at least $75K per year ; have been operating as current registered business
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The Consulting Business Model(commoncog.com)
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> offering ML models (classification, recommendation, ranking) through web services Your product may be valuable to an organisation when: (i) the org has a standard kind of decision they need to make regularly - for instance, sales forec
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by shoo 6y ago
If your product is something that market already demands, one idea is to set up a site and run a small ad campaign. "How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study" https://www.psl.com&
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by shoo 6y ago
Biggest wins are often achieved by starting from the demand side and try to figure out how to reduce demand. Think about the what jobs your software applications do. Are there other lower-carbon ways to do those jobs? Simple non software ex
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by shoo 6y ago
> If the start-up does not have cash reserves / cash generation to pay salaries, then the promised-equity has a very low value, so I'd expect the fee to be huge. I agree. In some situations where you are stuck working for the s
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I know nothing about secfi. In theory, this approach could be applied when a start-up does not have cash reserves / cash generation to pay salaries.
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I agree about explicit None checks. It is often useful to distinguish None from the zero value of a type such as a numeric zero, empty string or empty collection. I also write "is None" & "is not None" everywhere whe
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by shoo 6y ago
On another hand, as mentioned in the report, if a SaaS operator does manage to close a sale to a larger business then that larger business is likely to provide the SaaS operator a much higher lifetime value due to lower price sensitivity an
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by shoo 6y ago
Regarding "which best describes how you validated your original business idea?", is anyone aware of more research around the effectiveness or practicality of different validation approaches? That is, rough false-positive (validat
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by shoo 6y ago
One option: pick an arbitrary bank that's been around for a few decades, perhaps one that isn't huge enough to have been investing in building internal engineering/platform capability for the last decade, but is large enough
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Software product used by client to optimise decisions for large scale construction project, to minimise construction cost (think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility_location ). Regression introduced into some of th
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Interesting to rewind to before the engagement & think about the odds of them both ending up alive years later: there was a chance that Zoltan would be killed by taking a risky third look with the radar from a fixed position. There was
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Jenny Odell -- how to do nothing: https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f5...
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On another hand, many commercial programming tasks or programming roles are relatively mundane or lower-skill, and do not require exceptional levels of programming ability. If an exceptional programmer was dropped into one of these roles, t
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> I assumed previously that they were having the business owner pay them out, but that doesn't appear to be the case. In the silliest case, they might just be doing the VC funded growth thing where they're subsidising the cost
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> Dosh makes money by taking a percentage on each transaction facilitated through its cashback network. > It can command a portion of each transaction in exchange for directing new and repeat customers to the merchants it partners wit
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by shoo 6y ago
thank you for sharing the link, very interesting to see a similar idea discussed within another community.

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